The "cold as f*ck bong water" is going to be at the same temperature as the water vapor. You can't use it to condense the vapor.
You're still fighting against the Second Law. You can't get water vapor to evaporate in one bong and condense in another if both are under the same conditions. The condensor must be colder than the cold water you're producing in the evaporator bong. There's no way around that.
Incidentally, the water vapor you're producing is *not* steam. Steam refers to water after a bulk phase change - that is, after boiling. Bongs produce water vapor in air. Humid air.
And yes, when water condenses, it warms whatever it's condensing on, as well as itself. Same as how it cools when it evaporates. Notice in a bong-evaporator that the humid air leaving and the water that is not evaporated are at about the same temperature. I believe someone here already posted that the exhaust air on his was about 3 degrees (C?) below ambient.
No matter how you set this up, you're going to end up with a good-sized cooling unit on the condensor that will be putting in a hell of a lot more work than would be necessary if it was chilling water going directly to the CPU.
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